Ever since the beginning of the Living Waters for the World (LWW), mission teams have used flexible PVC piping in difficult to pipe applications. Be it equipment or component alignment challenges or just connecting hard pipe on the wall to equipment, flexible PVC piping has been the answer.
During this time, CWU-103 has taught that flexible PVC piping needs more time for the glue to set when connecting components. When it comes to over-pressuring a system, the flexible PVC piping and connections are the weakest links in the clean water system. If a system is over-pressured, for example, the joints with flexible PVC piping will fail and leak first.
It has also come to LWW’s attention that flexible PVC piping may be prone to leaching in a “plastic smell” to the water especially if the water is left stagnant in this piping for extended periods of time.
For these reasons, LWW is considering taking the flexible PVC piping out of the Standard Clean Water System kits offered by the Fulfillment Center.
Please get back to Ralph Young at ralph.young@livingwatersfortheworld.org with your comments and feedback on the need for flexible PVC piping in clean water systems.
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